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   by reactspa 5y ago

   I meant speed of light. Yes. That was a typo / brain glitch. Thank you for your explanation, helped a lot.
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   by reactspa 5y ago

   Question: how come a photon can carry a variable amount of energy? (Layman here, I would have guessed that photons travel at the speed of sound, and are of fixed size and energy, like electrons.)
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   by reactspa 5y ago

   Also, the article author thinks that U.S. borders can be hermetically sealed. Even if American companies were to recreate all those companies, and rehire all the people, China will still be able to make TVs, Computers and Phones at one-fift
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   by reactspa 5y ago

   I think the ziggurat has been completely restored. The old pics from when it was first photographed have it look like a lumpy mess. I suspect that even the current bricks are new. https://images.app.goo.gl/T3HxJqqHgMYzTca88
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   by reactspa 5y ago

   I wonder if there are "Bajau Nomad" women who can dive for longer durations. https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/bajau-sea...
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   by reactspa 5y ago

   > I have been able to find exactly one pre-registered experiment of the impact of prolonged sleep deprivation on cognition. It was published by economists from Harvard and MIT in 2020 and its pre-registered analysis found null effects o
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   by reactspa 5y ago

   > When Choosing a Life Path, Think About What Contexts It’ll Place You In Author is clearly a genius because he can imagine in advance "all the contexts" a particular lifepath will put him in.
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   by reactspa 5y ago

   Also: in the version of the story I remember reading somewhere, all night they kept hearing trees fall. And that had a significant effect in affecting their impression of the probability.
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   by reactspa 5y ago

   "one man stumbled drunk through the party, wearing a tablet displaying an NFT cat cartoon around his neck. He was grabbing strangers for stability and telling them how owning his Cool Cat “changed my life.” “Before this cat, I was a l
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    by reactspa 5y ago

    You know how on Twitter sometimes you can "heart" a tweet by mistake (just scrolling and inadvertently tapping the heart icon), and that can be used against you years later? Donate $1 to some charity, and later it turns out this c
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    by reactspa 5y ago

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    by reactspa 5y ago

    I'm addicted to Twitter, so I force myself to view it in the web app (because it's a little more friction compared to apps). It's not even that the Twitter algorithm is any good. Sometimes when showing a thread, it'll st
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    by reactspa 5y ago

    The most bizarre case is Twitter forcing me to see tweets in order of some algorithm instead of in chrono order. They let me switch to chrono order. And then automatically switch back after a month or so. And then I switch back to chrono or
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    by reactspa 5y ago

    100% agree that bookmarks need a better solution. Whoever does it will change the game. I'm a bookmarks hoarder. If I encounter a useful site, I bookmark it. I have about 20,000 bookmarks on Chrome now. Someone on HN once described boo
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    by reactspa 5y ago

    Very interesting. If you've found a good enough way to import Chrome bookmarks into Zotero, please share how you do it. (Ignore if you haven't, or don't use Chrome). Thanks.
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    by reactspa 5y ago

    > One trick corps did for unions was to have the established union workers "sell out" the incoming workers. So the old guard gets to keep sweet benefits, pay, seniority, while new hires did not. The people in charge of the unio
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    by reactspa 5y ago

    Also, a blank sheet doesn't demand synthesis . It can also be used to capture .
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    by reactspa 5y ago

    In defense of tenure: its function is to allow faculty to speak their mind. I believe in tenure. If you want to know what would happen without tenure, look at places such as Pakistan (technically a democracy, but basically nobody speaks the
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    by reactspa 5y ago

    If the USA truly believed in competition, free markets, and capitalism, they wouldn't be so scared of currency competition. I suppose it's just like the Assange and Snowden situation. The USA releases all kinds of reports about pr
20. 170.▲
    by reactspa 5y ago

    I meant it more in the line of they teach ethics and morality, etc., and then do this.
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    by reactspa 5y ago

    Nepotism out the wazoo in much of America. In NYC, the police officer's son gets the police officer job, and the fireman's son gets the fireman job. They're considered plum jobs because they have good healthcare and early ret
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    by reactspa 5y ago

    Previously on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29801850
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    by reactspa 5y ago

    I had the same 50 tabs open on Chrome for about a year. Just articles and videos that I was supposed to skim. They were important enough that I couldn't close them without skimming. But for some reason, sitting at my home desk, I just
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    by reactspa 5y ago

    I would love for someone to find holes in the reasoning in this article (my own Macro Econ skills are not that good). The author is a major voice in bitcoin circles (search their name with the word "bitcoin" or "crypto"
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    by reactspa 5y ago

    There's so much great content on the internet that's not easily discoverable. This is one. If you have discovered a great resource for intuitively learning about fat-tailed-distributions related mathematics, please share. I have f
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    by reactspa 5y ago

    Sorry Dan G. I will try to be more self-restrained and careful in future. (And less pointless-ly emotional. Putting my emotions on here is the most unproductive thing, I know. And yet I do it.)
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    by reactspa 5y ago

    "an empty mind is a devil's workshop".
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    by reactspa 5y ago

    In case anyone from Gmail is reading: we need a block button that blocks an email address from the inbox, and also deletes the email (i.e. it doesn't park the email in spam, as is the current practice). There are two domains that send
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    by reactspa 5y ago

    > This is hilarious Glad to hear you find it funny. > Someone was trying to take over your account Nope. If you read the original post again, you'll find out that "I" was trying to log into it. > use MFA for everythi
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    by reactspa 5y ago

    > any google account which does have 2FA should (as I understand it) Are you talking from experience (with Gmail) or just talking "best practices"?